John F. Kennedy

Too often we hold fast to the clichés of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.

John F. Kennedy

Victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today.

John F. Kennedy

We are under exercised as a nation. We look instead of play. We ride instead of walk. Our existence deprives us of the minimum of physical activity essential for healthy living.

John F. Kennedy

We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.

John F. Kennedy

We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them.

John F. Kennedy

We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect.

John F. Kennedy

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

John F. Kennedy

We don’t see the end of the tunnel, but I must say I don’t think it is darker than it was a year ago, and in some ways lighter.

John F. Kennedy

We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share… I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

John F. Kennedy